Durham coach Martyn Moxon believes his young side are starting to learn their lessons following the Norwich Union National league win over Somerset at the weekend.

Moxon had watched his side slip to a frustrating defeat in the Frizzell County Championship game on Saturday after a poor batting display had allowed the home side to cruise to the 195 needed to secure victory.

Although Durham's new-look bowling attack had performed well throughout the rain-affected four days, their top-order batsmen, with the notable exception of captain Jon Lewis, had failed to find form.

But that all changed on Sunday when young pair Gary Pratt and Nicky Peng came together for a superb 164-run partnership to steer their side to limited-overs victory.

Pratt, who was Durham's top scorer last season in the absence of Martin Love and Paul Collingwood, finished unbeaten on 101 and equalled the fastest century by a Durham player in the competition. Peng fell just eight runs short of his century as the Dynamos won with 44 balls to spare.

And Moxon was delighted with the response of his young stars after he had criticised them for their performances in the Championship game.

He said: "We had a long chat after the defeat on Saturday and I stressed to all the batsmen that they have to be more sensible at the wicket.

"Both Gary and Nicky have fantastic natural ability, but they have to learn that in certain situations they need to pull the reins in. We did not bat well in the Championship game and we gave away wickets when more caution and selective strokes were needed.

"That disappointed me because we had talked about these sorts of things in pre-season.

"But we got the ideal response from them both and they did extremely well in fairly difficult conditions. Now they have to take that into their four-day games."

Having gone for weeks without a defeat in any competition last season, Moxon is also pleased to have got off the mark on the first weekend of the campaign.

He explained: "We were annoyed at losing the Championship game because we were in a position to win it.

"We bowled very well throughout, but let ourselves down with the bat. We needed to post them a target of around 250 or more, but 195 was not enough to really put them under pressure in the second innings.

"But the win on Sunday has given everybody a lift and it was good to get off the mark in terms of winning a game. Hopefully we can carry that winning habit into our Championship game against Gloucestershire tomorrow."